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Building the Kanban board: Managing column state and rendering tasks

Building the Kanban board: Managing column state and rendering tasks

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Building the Kanban board: Managing column state and rendering tasks

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Welcome to this session on building a Kanban board for your React project. Our goal today is to create the main Kanban board component. We'll start with an initial, default columns array, and learn how to structure the board layout, dynamically render columns using map, and manage the state of our columns with useState. By the end of this session, you'll have a solid foundation for building a fully functional Kanban board. Let's set up the initial data for our Kanban columns. I'm introducing a default columns constant, which will be an array holding the configuration for each column. Now I'm populating the default columns array. The first column is TODO with the ID TODO. I'm adding two sample tasks, each with an ID, content, and a created at date. Notice how I'm using new date to create these timestamps. I'm adding a second column to default columns. This one is called In Progress, with the ID In Progress. I'm adding a single task for demonstration. Let's complete our default columns…

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